Monday January 25th, 2021
One Michigan couple is experiencing an unforeseen nightmare: The state’s legal system has twice denied them legal rights to their biological twin babies born with […]
Tuesday October 20th, 2020
The idea of the “traditional” family unit in the United States, with two opposite-sex parents married to each other, changed fundamentally with the legalization of […]
Monday September 14th, 2020
Children born to U.S. citizens have traditionally been considered citizens themselves, regardless of where they were born. However, a Georgia couple had to fight for […]
Monday August 17th, 2020
In 2012, a surrogacy arrangement made national headlines. Sadly, the little girl born from that arrangement, Seraphina Harrell, died recently on July 15 at the […]
Friday August 14th, 2020
In a previous blog post, we discussed a distressing side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals and families using international surrogacy arrangements. Due to […]
Tuesday June 23rd, 2020
If you have already started down the path of working with a surrogate to begin or add to your family, or if you are considering […]
Tuesday June 23rd, 2020
When choosing from among available sperm donors, intended parents can review and make decisions based on a variety of donor characteristics, including race. In the […]
Wednesday May 27th, 2020
When parents decide to start or grow their families through surrogacy, they usually want to be present at their child’s birth and take the child […]
Saturday March 7th, 2020
In a ruling that serves to illustrate changing attitudes about what constitutes a family, Israel’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision recently stating that some […]
Saturday February 15th, 2020
As surrogacy grows in acceptance throughout the U.S. and around the globe, more and more individuals and families are beginning to recognize that there isn’t […]
Monday December 23rd, 2019
Earlier this year, we shared some disturbing news about a surrogacy agency based in Maryland and Florida. Intended parents and surrogates alike claimed that The […]
Tuesday October 15th, 2019
In France, one of several countries in which surrogacy arrangements are illegal, intended parents do not enjoy automatic recognition as their child’s parents. In fact, […]
Wednesday September 25th, 2019
A battle over the U.S. State Department’s denial of citizenship rights to a baby born to two U.S. citizens is brewing. A same-sex married couple […]
Monday August 12th, 2019
Same-sex couples in Utah are celebrating a recent Utah Supreme Court decision which overturned an outdated state law governing surrogacy. That law prohibited same-sex couples […]
Friday August 9th, 2019
When a same-sex American couple recently brought their baby girl, Simone, home for the first time, they did so using a tourist visa for her […]
Friday July 12th, 2019
A new law in Virginia, signed by Governor Ralph Northam last month, should make it easier for same-sex male couples and single people to become […]